"New artistic impulses were coming to life all over Europe, and most of them had a definite relation with the art of the theatre in one or other of its numerous forms. The full history of these fresh developments, and of the resulting cleavage between the old ballet and the new, has yet to be written. Here we must be content to trace that cleavage in part to the influence of a new school of music which had risen to power within Russia itself, in part also to the more extraneous influences which came, via Moscow, from Prof. Reinhardt the German, and from Gordon Craig the Englishman. Nor must we forget the liberating force which sprang from the art of Isadora Duncan, whose heroic practice has done more than any precepts of philosophy to widen our ideas as to the intellectual and spiritual possibilities of the dance."
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Geoffrey Whitworth, on influences on Nijinsky, in The Art of Nijinsky (1914), Ch. 2, p. 17
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Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (March 12, 1890 – April 8, 1950) was a famous Russian ballet dancer.
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